Aum Shinrikyo

News about Aum Shinrikyo, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jun. 15, 2012

Investigators in Japan arrest Katsuya Takahashi, a former member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, in Tokyo on suspicion of murder in the 1995 subway nerve-gas poisoning attack that killed 13 people; arrest comes two weeks after Naoko Kikuchi, a suspected accomplice, was taken into custody. MORE

Jun. 8, 2012

Arrest of former Aum Shinrikyo cult member Naoko Kikuchi for her role in the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways is an unwanted reminder for many Japanese of a national trauma that most would like to forget. MORE

Jun. 4, 2012

Japanese police arrest Naoko Kikuchi, former Aum Shinrikyo cult member behind 1995 nerve-gas attack on Tokyo subway that killed 13 commuters and sickened 5,000 more; Kikuchi, who eluded the police for 17 years, is accused of manufacturing the sarin gas used in the attack. MORE

Jan. 11, 2012

Woman claiming to have lived with a senior member of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult behind the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo’s subways, turns herself in and and is arrested for helping him evade the police. MORE

October 10, 2007, Wednesday

It took eight years to try Shoko Asahara, the former leader of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo, on charges of masterminding the sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway in 1995 that killed 12 people, injured 5,500 and shattered Japan's cherished...

A former Japanese cult leader who ordered a gas attack on Tokyo subway trains in 1995 that killed 12, sickened thousands and shattered Japan's myth of public safety has been found guilty and sentenced to death after an eight-year trial. Prosecutors...

A chemist was sentenced to death for leading efforts by the Aum Shinrikyo cult to develop the nerve gas used in the 1995 attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 12 people and injured 5,000. The defendant, Masami Tsuchiya, 39, was the 11th member of...

The police raided buildings and vehicles used by the Pana Wave sect in an attempt to gauge the potential threat posed by the white-clad group, Japanese news media said. Twelve buildings in the prefectures of Tokyo, Fukui, Yamanashi, Okayama and...